SL WIN BOOST FOR COES
Simba's Territory Manager Steve Burcham and UK Sales Manager David Holmes congratulate Roger and Lucy Coe on winning the competition, with Mark Brazier, Profi's Sales Manager on the right.
Norfolk father and daughter Roger and Lucy Coe will have a valuable asset to help them keep tight control over crop establishment costs on the 1,000 acres and further contracting work they run from Manor Farm, Grimston, to the East of Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
They won the use of a Simba SL cultivator for a year in a competition run with Profi, the leading farm machinery and management magazine, and got an early opportunity to inspect the machine when they visited the Cereals event in June.
They expect the machine to play a significant role in stream-lining their cultivations both this autumn and next spring, especially on their heavier land, as Roger – a Profi reader for some year - explains:
“We have some areas of heavy land and some hard-working chalky soil types where we could use it to create a seed-bed in one pass working straight into the stubble. That would be an improvement in the system because that land can take a bit of knocking down if the conditions turn dry after ploughing, especially in the spring.
On these soils it would be a real benefit to have a one-pass system that left the seed-bed cultivated and weather-proof. We might also try establishing oilseed rape or stubble turnips off it using an applicator.
Over most of the lighter soil we plough and break that down with a Simba UniPress fitted with leading tines and then use either a cultivator or power harrow combination drill to sow the crop”.
